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Flow Is an Animal Adventure That’s Endearing and a Little Too Pretty
The Latvian animated film is a wordless survival story that lets its animals act like animals.
There are no people in Flow, an animated movie from Latvia about the adventures of a black cat, a yellow Lab, an unflappable capybara, a tetchy lemur, and an aloof secretary bird that band together to survive a cataclysmic flood. But elsewhere, what’s left of humankind looks more like well-preserved ruins — like the columns from an uncertain period that poke up through the water, or the empty city carved into the contours of a mountain, or the various abandoned vessels lying around, among them a tattered sailboat that Cat & Co. find their way aboard. The sun-dappled woods and verdant fields that the film starts with could have been lifted out of any number of open-world games, while the waterlogged areas the characters must make their way through, post-flood, more often than not evoke the CD-rom classic Myst.
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